A new major version of Zerto was released 2020-03-24 meaning the latest and greatest version is now 8.0.
There are quite a lot of new features and enhanced functionality in this release and below i have listed, in four main categories, some of the most important once from my perspective.
- Hybrid and Multi-Cloud
- Support for VMware on Google Cloud
- Zerto Self-Service Extension for VMware vCloud Director (vCD)
- Integration with VMware vCloud Director (vCD): Standalone VM Consolidation
- Multi-NIC Support for Microsoft Azure & AWS
- Microsoft Azure Gen 2 VM – UEFI Support W
- Data Protection
- Application aware retention
- Consume AWS Storage Gateway as a long-term retention target
- Analytics
- Impact analysis of protected vs unprotected VMs. This spans both on-prem as well as in the cloud.
- Alert and view customization
- Platform & Integration
- New user interface